This is an early Disney short featuring Mickey Mouse. There will be spoilers ahead:
Mickey runs an "opry house", which is basically a musically oriented vaudeville house. This is a low-end musical house, with Mickey doing most of the acts. There's a funny, if predictable gag involving a rather large patron trying get through the front door.
There's a third-rate snake charming act and Mickey as a kootch dancer. Music drives the cartoon as opposed to, say, a plot, mostly because sound was still quite new and Disney, like everyone else, was striking while the iron was hot.
The best part of the cartoon has Mickey playing the piano in a classical mode, caricaturing Ignacy Jan Paderewski, a well known concert pianist whom most in the audience would recognize. The piano and Mickey's stool have their own ideas and the stool is quite a ham.
This short is available on the Mickey Mouse In Black and White, Volume Two of the Disney Treasures DVD sets and is well worth seeking out. Recommended.
Mickey runs an "opry house", which is basically a musically oriented vaudeville house. This is a low-end musical house, with Mickey doing most of the acts. There's a funny, if predictable gag involving a rather large patron trying get through the front door.
There's a third-rate snake charming act and Mickey as a kootch dancer. Music drives the cartoon as opposed to, say, a plot, mostly because sound was still quite new and Disney, like everyone else, was striking while the iron was hot.
The best part of the cartoon has Mickey playing the piano in a classical mode, caricaturing Ignacy Jan Paderewski, a well known concert pianist whom most in the audience would recognize. The piano and Mickey's stool have their own ideas and the stool is quite a ham.
This short is available on the Mickey Mouse In Black and White, Volume Two of the Disney Treasures DVD sets and is well worth seeking out. Recommended.